All Ireland Championship 2025.

[Halfquarter]

McGuinness is a moaney aul bollix

Yes, he just made an idiot of himself.
What hardship , having to stay in the Hudson Bay , 29 minutes down the road from Hyde Park.
Other lies told by him as well. Hyde Park is 35 minutes from the Mayo training ground, he must have an airplane.

[Blowitupref]

Will all the quarter finals be in Croke Park?

Yes. Debate to be had that the same should be done as the Tailteann cup whereby the group winners gets home advantage for the Quarter finals.

Nice idea but not really one for debate. Too many county grounds simply aren't big enough.
Our own ground has a capacity of 18000. You'd have that many Armagh ones looking to be there.
Imagine Louth had a home  quarter final, or Meath.

You select your own venue then, something Louth have been doing for a while now.

[Ethan Tremblay]

Read that myself this morning about mcguinness.  Yeah, he's trying to work an angle.

Also armagh fans seem to have gone very quiet all of a sudden.  They had a nice wee path sorted to the semi finals until meath fecked it up and now they're realising they're probably going to be playing kerry.  While I expect armagh to beat a kerry team playing 3 weeks on the trot it's funny how the best laid plans can come s cropper

Realistically if we're going to win an All Ireland which is obviously the aim, we'd most likely need to beat Kerry at some point. Surely getting them in a quarter final playing 3 weeks on the bounce and with a few injuries is our best chance at beating them. (Assuming the prelims go to script)

My thoughts exactly, prob best time to get them.  Armagh shouldn't have a big fear of any team coming out of that group tbh.  They seem to be comfortable competing against these big teams at the moment.  Shouldn't be any fear facing whoever.   

Regarding McGuniness, and to an extent Murphy, who was also feeding that 'hard done by travelling' narrative in his post game MOM interview, Donegal are situated in the top west corner of Ireland.  Unfortunately for them, being situated there will result in travelling.  Dropping in Inishowen, one of the most northerly points to exaggerate the point is petty stuff altogether. 

[snoopdog]

Armagh are the best team in the competition.
I'd be surprised if they don't go back to back.

[joemamas]

Kerry v Cavan 3.30pm Saturday
Dublin v cork 6.15pm Saturday

Down v Galway 1.45pm Sunday
Donegal v Louth 4pm Sunday

All on GAA+ 

Assuming that Dublin, Donegal Kerry and Galway win (no disrespect meant, going off the odds)
then the two Saturday Q/finals will be

Armagh V Kerry
Dublin V ?

Sunday Q/Finals

will be

Donegal V ?
Galway v ?

As Donegal and Galway are playing next Sunday and (Jimmy and PJ will throw some tantrum,(justifiably so ) if they are asked to play six days later

[Blowitupref]

Armagh are the best team in the competition.
I'd be surprised if they don't go back to back.

Be a fine feat if they manage it.  The last Ulster team to win back-to-back All-Ireland Senior Football Championships was your own Down in 1960 and 1961.

[Truthsayer]

Ah , the old heated  balls on the radiator  worked a treat this morning

The 4 big  guns kept apart. Four inevitable victories 

Dublin by 8+
Kerry by 12+
Donegal by 6+
Galway by 2+

When you're reminded some on the Board haven't a clue. Was two pots with 2nd place teams against 3rd place teams... hence 'kept apart' 

Ah sure I was only  being 'circastic' 

I was aware of the  two pots . Just  disappointing  that  none of the  big 3  (well, two, Ker/Don ) in first  pot  didn't draw the big 1  in other pot (Galway )

From what could have been a  fairly  interesting weekend of football  , it's  all a bit of a formality now

Sorry about that I thought you were serious. I seen boys going on other site about a fix as they do after every draw. My bad...

[phpearse]

Armagh making a right good defense of their All ireland. Whole lot better than the effort Tyrone made in 2022. They do look the best equipped side to go on and win back to back. They had been knocking on the door for a few years and I would have thought that after winning last year, then may have been off the boil this year. They look to be in decent shape. Still beatable though.

[greatpoint]

Christ the whinging from Mayo ones is hilarious. Seems like there's a bit of a sense of entitlement there because the media and neutrals feel sorry for them.

Only got a chance to watch the Donegal Mayo game late last night. When was Murphy supposed to be up to all his badness? Did the cameras not pick it up or what?

[Manning18]

Kerry v Cavan 3.30pm Saturday
Dublin v cork 6.15pm Saturday

Down v Galway 1.45pm Sunday
Donegal v Louth 4pm Sunday

All on GAA+ 

Assuming that Dublin, Donegal Kerry and Galway win (no disrespect meant, going off the odds)
then the two Saturday Q/finals will be

Armagh V Kerry
Dublin V ?

Sunday Q/Finals

will be

Donegal V ?
Galway v ?

As Donegal and Galway are playing next Sunday and (Jimmy and PJ will throw some tantrum,(justifiably so ) if they are asked to play six days later

Yep I think you're correct there, they're likely hamstrung in terms of when Donegal and Galway if they win can play, and Dublin often get that Saturday evening slot

I think you'll see a huge crowd that Saturday and if Dublin drew Meath then an 82k sellout. That potential Sunday won't be as busy but again if you had Meath playing that day it's probably 60k+

[APM]

Armagh are the best team in the competition.
I'd be surprised if they don't go back to back.

Be a fine feat if they manage it.  The last Ulster team to win back-to-back All-Ireland Senior Football Championships was your own Down in 1960 and 1961.

Armagh have been very open at the back and if they lose the midfield battle then some team could give them a bit of a trimming. 

[maddog]

Armagh are the best team in the competition.
I'd be surprised if they don't go back to back.

Be a fine feat if they manage it.  The last Ulster team to win back-to-back All-Ireland Senior Football Championships was your own Down in 1960 and 1961.

Armagh have been very open at the back and if they lose the midfield battle then some team could give them a bit of a trimming. 

No doubt about that. Think a lot depends on which defenders we get back in the next few weeks and also fitness of Ben Crealey. Guess Crealey and Grimley is preferred combo but Duffy has impressed me despite not being a natural midfielder.

[Captain Obvious]

Armagh are the best team in the competition.
I'd be surprised if they don't go back to back.

Be a fine feat if they manage it.  The last Ulster team to win back-to-back All-Ireland Senior Football Championships was your own Down in 1960 and 1961.

Armagh have been very open at the back and if they lose the midfield battle then some team could give them a bit of a trimming. 

Which of the remaining 12 teams aren't very open at the back when they lose a couple kick outs in a congested area?  under these new rules the matches are lopsided towards offensive play and we are getting inflated scorelines. 

[J70]

Read that myself this morning about mcguinness.  Yeah, he's trying to work an angle.

Also armagh fans seem to have gone very quiet all of a sudden.  They had a nice wee path sorted to the semi finals until meath fecked it up and now they're realising they're probably going to be playing kerry.  While I expect armagh to beat a kerry team playing 3 weeks on the trot it's funny how the best laid plans can come s cropper

Realistically if we're going to win an All Ireland which is obviously the aim, we'd most likely need to beat Kerry at some point. Surely getting them in a quarter final playing 3 weeks on the bounce and with a few injuries is our best chance at beating them. (Assuming the prelims go to script)

My thoughts exactly, prob best time to get them.  Armagh shouldn't have a big fear of any team coming out of that group tbh.  They seem to be comfortable competing against these big teams at the moment.  Shouldn't be any fear facing whoever.   

Regarding McGuniness, and to an extent Murphy, who was also feeding that 'hard done by travelling' narrative in his post game MOM interview, Donegal are situated in the top west corner of Ireland.  Unfortunately for them, being situated there will result in travelling.  Dropping in Inishowen, one of the most northerly points to exaggerate the point is petty stuff altogether. 

How about Gaoth Dobhair or Glencolmcille?

[David McKeown]

Like a lot of neutrals I was disappointed to see Mayo exit the championship - they bring so much to the competition.

Fair play to Donegal with the last play leading to the winner.
They could have kicked the play out of play after the hooter knowing they were through.
Had they taken that option it would have left a very sour taste in the Breffni County.

They've been by far the most turgid of the big teams to watch this year. Every one of their championship games has had under the average number of points this year, some of them significantly so.

The only common denominator there is Mayo. The new rules reward clever and classy forward play and that's something they've always struggled with, even back when they were good

My bitter taste comment referred to the choice that the Donegal player had after the hooter sounded :
- kick the ball over sideline and Mayo qualify
- kick the ball over bar and Cavan qualify.

From a Donegal perspective, kick it over the bar and we (a) beat a tough opponent we haven't beaten in years; (b) knock out an opponent who could easily beat us if we were to meet again.

Moore showed massive respect to Mayo by doing what he did.

The new rules are to encourage teams to go and try and win the game, if Moore had just booted the ball out would have loved to have heard Fitzmaurice view on that.  Hooter I thought would be a good addition but in tight games last few minutes are hard watch one team just trying to hold the ball rather than get another score.

The new rules do what now?  Was there a spate of teams trying to draw matches that I missed under the old rules. If any thing the hooter rule does the exact opposite.